The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-08
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
General News of the Rail and
Wheel.

steadily.
HELD's BAND will now be found daily
st Lake Park.
W. Il. BANCROFT and family left for
Denver yesterday.
HoYT SHERMAN, of the Union Pacific.
Is back from the north.
PIP. SHELBY. late of the Union Pa
clhc, left yesterday for Omaha.
ALEX MITCHELL, of the Chicago, Mil
Waukee d st. Paul, has gone north.
"A HANDSOME photo of the Idanha
Hotel, at Soda Springs, is on exhibition
In the Union Pacific window.
/ LAKE BATHING was never better than
at the present time. Unless there is a
sudden change in the temperature, the
New York Vets. will enjoy, on Monday
next, the greatest novelty and pleasure
on their tour from ocean to ocean.
THE CHICAGO Times says: at is
understood that when Chairman Fink,
OF the Eastern Trunk lines, returns
from his three months European Vaca-
ton, he will insist upon being granted
a permanent leave. His assistant,
Vice Chairman Guilford, will be made
traffic manager of the New York
Central. The programme will eliminate
IN the appointment of Chairman
blanchard of the Central Traffic
Association, as the successor of Mr.
Fink"
THE MASSACHUSETTS railroad commits
sloners have issued a circular to the
railroad companies of the State con-
corning car heating. Under the law
which took effect last spring the COM
mon car stove is excluded altogether,
and no furnace or heater of any kind
can be introduced without first obtain
ing the approval of the commissioners.
in selecting heating apparatus the board
recommends the adoption of the system
OF neatlng by steam from the locomo-
i've, or, at least, OF sucn approved appa-
ratus as can be readily converted into
such system. 1t does not consider it
practicable to dispense wholly with the
separate heater, or to make so radical y
change as that contemplated, before
cold weather. The board mentions as
acceptable the three systems of continu-
GUS heating which have been used in
that State.
RAILROADS ENTERING Chicago are Just
now interested in discovering some
efficient remedy for the smoke nuts
ance, war having been waged upon
them by the Health Department of that
city with great vigor. Last week repre-
sentatiyes Of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, Illinois Central, Michigan
Central and other roads were brought
before justice and told what they
must do in this direction. Owners of
tuSe ond 1aTsv business houses were
also arraigned, and the daily papers
have raised the cry OF burn anthracite
coal" This was shown by the de-
PENDANTS to be impracticable, for the
reason that the prices of hard coal
were so high in comparison with the
< ordinary steam coal now used that its
= adoption would be almost ruinous
, More than this, it would require altera-
tons in all fire-boxes to make the
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, said
that bis company is experimenting
with device which promises well
Other defendants claim that no salts
factory device exists whereby the evil
may be remedied. The case will come
up for hearing again on the 10th.
IT APPEARS that the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe has distinguished one of the
stations on its new Chicago line by
naming it after the only Burdette
: who acknowledges the compliment as
follows:
BRYN MAwR, Pa, August Is 1887.
My dear Mr. LedtCith.-If l am the
} man whom the Chicago, Santa Fe and
/ California Railway delighteth to honor,
= my laurels are made greener and
, brighter, being placed on my brows by
a Greene County neighbor-may her
emerald hills never be steeperl
Your pen picture of the new station
was the work of an artist. q The
section. house rises before my eyes as I
: read your letter, and the tool-houses
! stand before me-, and 1 see the wearied
: tramp reposing in the shade of the
freight house. Peace to his sole, or
should l say pieces to his soles. l see
the children of another generation,
dear Ladwith, rising up to look upon
nv name as fragment OF the geOgra-
ply of the great c., S. F. & G. Indeed,
! it is a monument of which any man
might well be proud, and l am indeed
proud of it. People will live under the
shadow of my name, which 1 am
now convinced will live forever,
or at least during the full
term of the construction bonds. The
commercial traveller, that timid, shrink
ing, shy, and gentle flower of the road,
will, it may be, break his fast and slack
his DOLLOInleSS tnlrSL al the LOWQ OF me.
May he digest me lightly. 1t may be
that on the Fourth of July and on my
birthday return tickets may be put on
sale for me, good for three days. This
is sweet to the vain soul of man as honey
and the hOneycomb.
/ hope the station of Burdette may be
mucn lsrger-many times larger and
better than the man for whom it is
named. l hope it may grow like a
campaign rumor, that it will become as
big as a prairie, that 1t will be blessed
in its storehouses, and in all that it
setteth its hand unto: that it shall be
made plenteous in goods, and in the
good treasure of the rain in its season,
in the fruit of its ground and of its
cattle. When it gets to be big enough
and strong enough to stand it, III come
out and lecture to it. But hot until
after it Is weaned. 1 don't want to
stunt its growth. And so l commend
it to its tutelar goddess-the c., S. F, &
G. Ry. ROBERT ]. BURDETTE.
Teemer Wins.
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